Dark Arteries was commissioned by Rambert Dance Company and first performed in May 2015 with the Tredegar Town Band sharing the stage with Rambert dancers. Dark Arteries is a personal and at times highly wrought response to the Miners’ Strike and its aftermath. It is in three movements the first and last are expansive with widely contrasting sound worlds from dark brooding melodies and the haunting sounds of solo flugel horn to wild syncopations on cornets suggestive of an imposing but often bleak mining landscape.In 2016 Higgins re-worked Dark Arteries into a virtuoso concert suite which captures the essence of the work in three connected movements.Dark Arteries Suite was premiered by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain conducted by Bramwell Tovey at the Barbican Centre London 22 April 2017.

Penderecki a écrit cette oeuvre pour les joueurs de cuivres de l\'Orchestre symphonique de Cincinnati. De façon typique de Penderecki de composer ce morceau est une musique plus beaux, très inspiré de laiton.Il y a une corne et une trompette solo en dehors des passages compacts pour l\'ensemble.Le niveau de difficulté est 4. / Cuivres Et Timbales